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India Manufactures 'A Mere 90,000 Assault Rifles a Year' - DefenseWorld
1 December 2010
Defenseworld.net
For a country facing insurgency and militancy, its defence and security forces place orders for only 90,000 5.56mm assault rifles out of a total of 164,000 small and personnel arms a year. This the average yearly production of its ordnance factories.
According to information given to the Indian parliament by Minister of State for Defence, Mr MM Pallam Raju, the production is largely from three state owned factories, Rifle Factory Ishapore, Small Arms Factory Kanpur and... (GunPolicy.org)